Depeche Mode doesn't mean anything, nor does Eurythmics. Band names aren't supposed to mean anything. I wanted something that wasn't English, and you couldn't get more English than "Elly Jackson."

Obviously it's difficult not to compare one record success-wise, or sales-wise, or whatever, but I think you're always going to have moments - whatever record you've got - of insecurity.

I'm very much of the mindset that if you've made the record you wanted to make and there's nothing about it that you would change, then you should just be proud and happy with what you've done.

(About the magic bathroom).If knowledge is money, and money is gold, then this is modern day Alchemy. Feces (wasted time) is turned into gold (knowledge).

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

Life is too short to waste your precious time on things that are of no value to your existence”.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.

In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.

My pure love is playing music.

I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.

Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.